Madison blotter

• Damage: On Jan. 20, deputy Michael Moore was dispatched about 9 p.m. to Ace Hardware in Colbert, where a person in the neighborhood heard something breaking. The deputy found the roof of a doghouse had been broken with a block. The witness saw two people running from the scene but could not identify them, although one wore a red long-sleeve shirt.

• Burglary: On Jan. 20, deputy Michael Moore was dispatched to a Lem Edwards Road, Colbert, home where someone broke in through the front door and stole $3,800 worth of items, including a Ruger .308-caliber rifle with scope, a Marlin bolt-action rifle, two Gibson guitars and a Martin guitar.

• Burglary: On Jan. 21, deputy Chris Guest was dispatched about 8 a.m. to a vacant home on Kimberly Circle, Hull. The front door was kicked in, but nothing appeared to be missing.

• Fraud: On Jan. 20, a 70-year-old Colbert woman reported that someone made a fraudulent $128 transaction on her bank debit card.

• Arrest: On Jan. 21, deputy Mark Jerome was dispatched to the Quick Pic convenience store on Georgia Highway 72, Colbert, after an employee became concerned about a man lingering there. Deputies arrived and told the man that he should leave the property, but the man said he couldn't find the keys to his pickup. The deputies asked him to look for the keys, but he refused and responded with a curse word. He was told he would be arrested if he didn't comply and he responded, "Well, just take me to jail." William J. Payne, 63, of Toccoa was taken to jail on a charge of trespassing.

• Arrests: On Jan. 21, deputy Josh Fowler and investigator Scott Pulliam were running radar on Georgia Highway 72 in Carlton about 1:45 p.m. when Fowler saw a 1994 Chevrolet Suburban driven by a man Fowler knew was wanted on a parole warrant. The vehicle turned onto Lexington Road, Carlton, and would not stop for Fowler. The vehicles proceeded into Oglethorpe County, and Fowler radioed to alert deputies there. When the vehicles reached Glade Road, the Chevy turned off the road and stopped, and both the passenger and driver got out and ran. Pulliam caught the passenger, identified as Kristina Ponce, 25, of Jefferson, while Fowler had to run about 100 yards into the woods before he caught Paul Leonard Hodge, 33, of Woodale Street, Hull. Some suspected methamphetamine was found in the vehicle, so both were charged with possession of the drug. Hodge also was charged with speeding and failing to maintain a lane.

• Burglary: On Jan. 21, Lt. Jeff Vaughn was dispatched to Acorn Road, Colbert, where someone entered a home through a rear door and left muddy tracks to a bedroom where a Colt .22-caliber revolver and a Smith & Wesson .22-caliber pistol were stolen.

• Harassment: On Jan. 21, a 51-year-old Hull woman reported she received about 15 phone calls from a restricted number. The male caller used sexually explicit language and cursed at her. The woman said she did not recognize the caller's voice.

• Dispute: On Jan. 21, deputy Josh Smith was dispatched to a Colbert home where a woman had a dispute with her daughter. The mother manages a restaurant and employed her 22-year-old daughter to work there, but the daughter wanted off work the next day and the mother refused. They engaged in an argument, and the father tried to separate them. The daughter had left the house by the time Smith arrived.

• Burglary: On Jan. 22, deputy Michael Free was dispatched to a burglary in progress on Colbert Danielsville Road about 4:45 p.m. A neighbor in the area said he saw a man and woman take a metal sink from a vacant house, which belongs to a Warner Robins man. The witness said the pair left in a gray Chevrolet Z71 pickup with camouflage in the back window. Free recognized the pickup as belonging to Travis Lee Cowart, so he drove to Alewine's Salvage in Hull, where an employee told him such a pickup was located. When confronted, Cowart said he had permission from his cousin to take the sink, but Free learned that the cousin sold the house three years ago. Cowart, 31, of Fowler Freeman Road, Danielsville, was charged with burglary.

• Burglary: On Jan. 22, deputy Wesley Bryant was dispatched to a Scogin Road, Colbert, home, which a 20-year-old man found had been burglarized. The resident encountered one of the suspects in his backyard and found his stereo speakers stashed in the suspect's car. The suspect, a 16-year-old juvenile, was taken to the sheriff's office where he later was released to his mother. Other items stolen included an Xbox 360, controllers, four video games and a DVD player, all valued at $1,100. Also in connection with the investigation, deputies charged Douglas M. Gresham, 17, of Clover Street, Comer, with possessing drugs not in an original container after five hydrocodone pills were found on him.

• Harassment: On Jan. 22, deputy Tim Parr was dispatched to a home on U.S. Highway 29, Danielsville, after a 30-year-old man said his former roommate, a 29-year-old woman, is making harassing calls to him and his other two female roommates, ages 24 and 26.

• Damage: On Jan. 23, deputies were called to the Apex Store off Old Danielsville Road, Hull, after the owner found someone had run a vehicle into the side of the store, causing extensive damage.

• Burglary: On Jan. 26, a Comer man reported that he is watching over some property on Collins Brooks Road that belongs to a Cuthbert man, and found a barn had been entered. Two Ford motor engine blocks and a Chevrolet engine block, all valued at $4,500, were stolen.

• Arrest: On Jan. 23, Sgt. Douglas Martin parked in the lot of Hull Sanford Elementary School. Shortly after 1 a.m., he saw a Ford Explorer pull into the parking lot. When the driver saw the patrol car, it came to a sudden halt and turned around to leave. Martin stopped the vehicle and smelled alcohol on the driver, who slurred his speech. The man had two beers in the console. Manuel Negrete Reyes, 18, of Chesterton Drive, Athens, was arrested for DUI, open container and being an unlicensed driver. Reyes registered 0.21 on a blood-alcohol test.

• Drugs: On Jan. 23, a Madison County Jail employee was walking through the jail's front lobby when she saw a rolled marijuana cigarette under a mat. She found a second joint in the lobby bathroom.

• Molestation: On Jan. 23, deputies were dispatched to Colbert for a case involving a juvenile accused of molesting a 3-year-old child. The case was turned over to investigator Pat Holl.

• Burglary: On Jan. 25, the owner of B&M Auto Sales on Georgia Highway 72, Colbert, reported someone broke a window out of his shop, but he was unable to determine if anything was stolen.

• Battery: On Jan. 24, a 19-year-old Danielsville woman reported a case of sexual battery. The woman had gone to the sheriff's office after she and her husband got into an argument. She eventually called her uncle and asked him to pick her up. The woman said after she left with him about 1 a.m., the uncle pulled his van onto the roadside and tried to grope her. She got out of the van and ran, and sent her husband a text message that her uncle tried to rape her. The husband called the sheriff's office, and deputies located the woman in a cemetery. The case was handed to an investigator.

• Burglary: On Jan. 27, deputy Matthew Pilkington was dispatched to Paoli Road, Carlton, where a Crawford man said someone broke six windows in a building and a window in a 1956 Chevrolet car. Pilkington found a breaker box had been opened and some copper wire cut out.

• Theft: On Jan. 25, a Danielsville man reported that someone stole the license tag off his trailer.

• Assault: On Jan. 25, deputy Klint Segars was dispatched to a Jot 'em Down Road home for a dispute between two women. A 39-year-old Commerce woman said she went to her ex-husband's home to get their daughter's cell phone, but the ex's girlfriend refused to give it up, saying the woman first had to pay off a $75 debt. The complainant said the other woman then hit her in the left eye with a large spoon and pushed her off the porch. Segars spoke to the ex-husband's girlfriend, who said her boyfriend's ex tried to punch her so she retaliated with the spoon. The deputy told her she couldn't hold the cell phone for an old debt. The woman agreed to return the phone.

• Dispute: On Jan. 25, deputy David Kidd was dispatched to a domestic problem at a home outside Danielsville. Two men and a 20-year-old Commerce woman were in the front yard. A 23-year-old man said his mother had assaulted the woman, his girlfriend. They explained that the boyfriend wanted his girlfriend to stay overnight, but the mother objected and told the young woman to leave before punching her. No arrests have been made.

• Arrest: On Jan. 25, deputy Josh Smith was dispatched to a dispute on Glen Carrie Road, Hull. James Darrell Hicks, 55, was having a problem with his stepson, who had lived with him the past four months. Hicks, who appeared intoxicated, said the two argued over money and claimed the stepson threatened him with a lawn mower blade. The stepson said Hicks had pulled out a pocket knife. Hick denied threatening him with a knife, and the stepson agreed to leave the house. While investigating the matter, both Smith and deputy Josh Fowler asked Hicks several times to be quiet, but he refused, kept drinking and became verbally abusive. He was arrested for disorderly conduct.

• Arrest: On Jan. 26, Sgt. Jason Ring clocked a vehicle on Paoli Road, Carlton, traveling 67 mph about 7:30 a.m. Justin M. Hill, 25, of Erastus Church Road, Commerce, was arrested for driving while his license was suspended. Hill also was wanted in Commerce for failing to appear in court.

• Fight: On Jan. 26, a deputy met with a Madison County High School student in regard to an assault there. The student had admitted his role in a burglary, and another student had punched him in the head three or four times.

• Arrest: On Jan. 27, a dispatch went out about 2:15 a.m. of a naked woman lying on a bed through an open door of her trailer at Diamond Hill Trailer Park on U.S. Highway 29. Three responding deputies learned a man, also naked, was seen walking out to a vehicle and then back into the home. Upon approaching the open door, one deputy could hear a woman moaning. When he looked inside, he saw the couple on the bed having sex. The deputy had to shout at them twice before he got their attention. Because the door was open and plainly visible to other residents, Milton J. Wilcher, 24, of Danielsville and Amanda N. Hick, 25, of Nicholson were charged with indecent exposure.

• Assault: On Jan. 21, Lt. Jeff Vaughn was dispatched to a Nowhere Road home where a 25-year-old woman and her husband had been arguing. The woman said when she tried to leave the home, her husband threw her to the floor and pinned her down, then took her car keys. The husband left and went to his mother's home in Winder. Vaughn called the man, who cursed in response. Warrants were taken out for his arrest.

• Arrest: On Jan. 22, deputies Gary Floyd and Michael Free and Sgt. Doug Martin responded to a shooting at a home off Georgia Highway 72, Carlton. Three teenagers had arrived at the home, where Cecil Cooper came out with a shotgun, fired it into the ground near their feet and told them to leave. Two of the teens fled, but one ran into the house where his grandmother lived and Cooper followed. Cooper grabbed a .22-caliber rifle and shot the 17-year-old Winterville teen in the foot. The rifle was loaded with rat shot, and although the pellets only grazed the foot, the shot left a wound. Gordon told the deputies he only was trying to scare the teens and didn't mean to hurt anyone. Cooper, 65, was arrested for aggravated assault and reckless conduct. As he was placed in custody, a loaded .22-caliber pistol was found in his pocket.

• Dispute: On Jan. 23, deputies were dispatched about 11 p.m. to a home on Georgia Highway 72, Colbert. A 46-year-old woman said her husband arrived home and began checking her cell phone numbers, which sparked an argument in which he threatened to kill her. The husband said he was at a basketball game and tried many times to call his wife, but she wouldn't answer. When he got home, he checked her phone and found she had erased all her calls that day. He denied threatening her life. The wife agreed to leave for the night.

• Dispute: On Jan. 26, deputies were dispatched to Ila, where a mother and son were arguing. The mother said her son would not listen to anything she said. The teen admitted he provoked his mother by yelling at her. Neither wanted to press charges.

• Arrest: On Jan. 26, deputy Michael Moore was dispatched to a Louise Drive, Hull, home after dispatch received a 911 call from a child who said his father was hitting his mother. When deputies arrived, the man came to the door and said everything was OK. He was asked to step outside, where he admitted there was an argument and that he only pushed his wife. She said he grabbed her by the hair and kicked her several times. Armando D. Hernandez, 28, was arrested for battery.

• Dispute: On Jan. 24, deputies were dispatched to a Colbert home where a man and woman, both 20, had argued and she claimed he pushed her. The man denied pushing her but said she threw his possessions out of the house and acted disorderly. He agreed to leave for the night.